Listen to this week’s news roundup (January 30, 2012)
I really should have named today’s update “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”, since those were all involved with my commute this unusual morning! This week’s podcasts is surely enough recorded from SFO Airport, so I hope you enjoy the atmosphere and the occasional interruptions!
Enyo.js open-sourced
As you may [...]
Listen to this week’s podcast (January 20, 2012)!
iOS Orientationchange Fix
jQuery Mobile’s Scott Jehl has released iOS-Orientationchange-Fix (read his blog post). This has been a persistent annoyance on iOS since its release. You may be familiar with the mobile viewport tag, which allows you to properly fit sites to fill the screen and be [...]
Hello there, it’s been a while! Oh dear, another year has passed. And it seems that I’ve been stocking up a year’s supply of JavaScript tidbits to dump on the unsuspecting populace! Ok, not quite, but I do have quite a backlog, that’s somewhat in chronological order, starting with the newest items:
David [...]
Listen to the podcast for November 11, 2011
insertAdjacentHTML
Mozilla has a nice overview of insertAdjacentHTML, a DOM function that’s intended to supplement innerHTML. It’s a bit less destructive and plays nicely with content that’s already in the DOM. For instance, whereas innerHTML completely blows away whatever is inside the container element, insertAdjacentHTML has handy [...]
Listen to this week’s podcast (October 29, 2011) (23:05 minutes)
I’m trying a little something different this week. I hope you guys like pictures.
Brenden Eich + “I Like Ike” mashup by @lonnen
140 byte synthesizer
A while back Jed Schmidt created a simple little project on GitHub called 140 bytes – a simple Gist [...]
This week’s podcast (I was hoping to keep it short, but I kept talking and talking… sorry!)
Libraries, frameworks, and code
Cube – open-source visualization for time series data
chainvas – chaining sugar for Canvas
JS-Forth: Forth Interpreter in JavaScript
when.js is a lightweight Promises and when() implementation (from CommonJS)
MongoSpy is a MongoDB monitor that outputs through your browser’s console
Swipe [...]
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(Podcast edit: I mistakenly mention Respond.js, which is actually a media query polyfill – I’m actually talking about Responsive images)
Google Dart
By far the biggest news of the week isn’t JavaScript, but rather a language called Dart (formerly Dash?), which certain factions within Google hope will replace JavaScript, according to a leaked [...]
Listen to this week’s podcast (September 9, 2011)
Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture
Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture is a lengthy article by Addy Osmani detailing some basic principles of writing a large-scale JavaScript application. It’s inspired by a classic Nicholas Zakas talk outlining some of the same principles (hey, I think I remember [...]
Tidbits
Introducing WebAPI
YUI updated and cleaned up its website. There’s a little discussion happening at Hacker News as well, with a lot of interaction with the YUI developers.
Behavior Attachment
Avoiding The Quirks: Lessons From A JavaScript Code Review – Addy Osmani gives a series of quick tips for writing your JavaScript
The Backbone.js Todo List Refactored – [...]
Libraries and Frameworks
Sprite3D.js
Responsive-Menu is a jQuery plugin to display menus as a select dropdown on mobile devices
jQuery Boilerplate is a boilerplate for creating jQuery plugins.
vintageJS
wru is a unit test framework for node.js and Rhino
box2dweb is a port of Box2DFlash 2.1a to JavaScript.
MediaElement.js
klass.js
JSONDB is a tiny script to pack and unpack (flatten and unflatten) JSON for [...]
